"This mouse here is a normal male mouse about two months old," he says. Then Lee reaches into the second cage. "Here's one of these myostatin knockout mice," he says. "I think you can appreciate ...

Experimental myostatin knockout in mice or some natural mutations of the myostatin gene increase muscle mass dramatically in mice, cattle and human beings. The case of a boy with twice the normal ...

Blockage of myostatin function in adult mice using a myostatin antibody or conditional knockout technology results in an increment of muscle mass. 6 Since myostatin blockage is effective for ...

The new agent is a version of a cellular docking point for the muscle-limiting protein myostatin. In mice, just two weekly injections of the new agent triggered a 60 percent increase in muscle ...

'Mighty Mice' Made Mightier Date: August 29, 2007 Source: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Summary: The scientist who first showed that the absence of the protein myostatin leads to oversized ...

Because some of these mice were genetically engineered to lack myostatin, they had twice the average muscle mass – hence, the nickname “mighty mice.” The mice who flew on the space station ...

Researchers bred both lean and obese mice that were unable to produce the protein myostatin, which is known to inhibit muscle growth. Both groups of mice bulked up as a result, but although the ...

Researchers are looking at a protein called Myostatin (MSTN) in mice testing to help astronauts maintain muscle and bone mass. MSTN is a protein that is part of a system of checks and balances ...

Related: The human body in space: 6 weird facts "Back then, we showed that mice in which we deleted the myostatin gene had dramatic increases in muscle mass throughout the body, with individual ...

Interfering with myostatin’s activity frees the muscles from this control so they can expand and strengthen. The peptides were first tested in mouse models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy ...

"This mouse here is a normal male mouse about two months old," he says. Then Lee reaches into the second cage. "Here's one of these myostatin knockout mice," he says. "I think you can appreciate how ...